Bath

Mom and I have spent the past few days in Bath, a primarily Georgian city (1700s) with Roman ruins. Bath has the only natural hot springs in Great Britain, and the Romans discovered this in the 1st century AD. They built a large complex of baths using the hot springs. Today, you can tour these remains, which we did. Much of the original Roman architecture is intact. There is also a new spa that is separate, which also uses water from the hot springs.

The Great Bath, from up above. Green is the water's natural color.

The Bath Abbey.

Hot springs overflow, used since the 1st century.

The Great Bath, the largest of several baths in the complex.

Mom.

Mom and me.

Me.

We also went on a tour of the city of Bath, most of which was built in the 1700s. The architecture is very uniform and beautiful, and was created from limestone mined nearby. It is Palladian style, and the city was largely designed by one architect, John Wood, and his son.

A building along the Pulteney bridge that is in need of a bit of help.

The Pulteney bridge with the river Avon beneath it. It was built to look like the Rialto bridge in Venice.

The Royal Crescent, a series of houses and flats that are incredibly expensive. Built in 1770.

One end of the Royal Crescent. The stone becomes dirty over time and must be cleaned.

A theater in Bath. 

Mom in front of a hotel on the river Avon (sadly not ours).